Paradigm Portfolio

Uniswap is a family of non-upgradeable exchange protocols whose control surfaces expanded from v1's fixed AMM to v4 hooks, Unichain, and DUNI. UNI governs treasury and fee decisions, while the current burn mechanism reduces supply without giving holders a direct claim on protocol revenue.

Cosmos Hub is one sovereign proof-of-stake chain in the wider Cosmos ecosystem. ATOM secures and governs that Hub; IBC links sovereign chains through light-client proofs, while only separately approved consumer chains borrow Hub security.

Monad's parallel EVM reached public mainnet in November 2025, then changed from 400 ms blocks and 25 MON rewards to 300 ms and 18 MON. Its deeper story is how Foundation-delegated stake, Category Labs code and validator adoption govern a chain whose token has no documented holder ballot.

Optimism grew from OP Mainnet into the OP Stack and Superchain: shared code, upgrades, governance and chain revenue. OP votes and now sits beside a treasury buyback program, but it does not pay gas or grant a fixed share of fees; fault proofs remain bounded by a single sequencer and fast upgrade keys.

Compound began as pooled Ethereum money markets, then split its design into v2 cToken pools and v3 single-base-asset Comet markets. COMP delegates steer upgrades and parameters through the Timelock, but the token itself is neither a deposit receipt nor a legal claim on reserves, interest or protocol income.

Starknet is a general-purpose Ethereum validity rollup whose Cairo execution is proven with STARKs and settled through Ethereum contracts. It is separate from StarkEx, StarkWare’s application-specific scaling service. STRK now pays all Starknet transaction fees, supports delegation and phase-2 validator attestation, and carries protocol voting power; it is not equity or a claim on StarkWare or the Foundation. The network has distributed sequencing components and a live S-two prover, but block production, proving and upgrade control have not yet reached the permissionless end state described in its roadmap.

AXS is a capped 270 million governance and ecosystem token; SLP is an uncapped game resource; Axies are NFTs governed by separate ownership and artwork-license terms. Their economy moved from Ethereum to Ronin, survived a five-key bridge breach, then moved to CCIP and an Ethereum L2 while treasury voting remained narrower than control of the game.

Synthetix is the protocol lineage that began as Havven, turned SNX into collateral for a shared Synth debt pool, modularized that risk in V3, delegated it to the 420 Pool and then retired sUSD under SIP-423. Current SNX sits beside an Ethereum-mainnet perpetuals exchange, but holding it alone is neither a Synth redemption claim nor a guaranteed fee right. Council signatures, pDAO upgrades and deferred new staking contracts define the present control boundary.

Mina's famous 22KB is a proof of the latest state, not a zip file containing every payment. Producers still need ledger state, archives keep history, and SNARK workers sell proof labor. That division made a small verifier possible—and made MINA an uncapped reward currency for the larger machine behind it.